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AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF JEWISH FAITH
THE OLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLICATION IN THIS TERRITORY
r o l. 17 No. 3
Week In Review
By MILTON SROWN. J.TA
L.THE BADGE OF OUR TRIBE”
there are horrors aplenty in
L Jewish news of the week but
Offering is the badge of our
Ibe” as Shakespeaite said, and
[e may be overweary of seeing
L same badge. For the moment
|any rate, let us glance at some
Lppier note in the story of the
Eek. In the darkness and chaos
I the Jewish world, one gropes
L something that at least after
L war, will show the way out,
[d in that connection, the ad-
L s of Israel M. Sieff delivered
Bore a gathering of the United
[destine Appeal this week, is of
jrnal interest.
|Mr. Sieff is a noted British in-
Istrialist, visiting America on
[me mission for the British gov
[nment. He is noted for his
[ilanthropies and for giving the
joney for the Sieff research in
itute in Palestine named after
[n. The Sieff institute is doing
hch important research in con
ation with the British defense
fort.
One principal point of Mr.
jeff's program for Jewish recon
ruction is that it be undertaken
It by Jews alone but with inter
[vernmental assistance. It will
i recalled that after the last war,
pse to one million Greeks were
loved from Turkey to Greece
Ith the aid of the League of Na
bns, under a Commission headed
r Henry Morgenthau. All of this
as done in the course of a few
Urs. Mr. Sieff, it would seem
foposes that 100,000 Jews a year
settled annually for a period of
n years in Palestine.
Secondly, Mr. Sieff proposes
pnething more radical. He would
[move large sections of the Arab
pulation from Palestine to oth-
Arab countries in the Near
bt, such as Syria, Iraq, Leban
[, etc. To uproot a native popu
tion of course is no simple mat
r, but perhaps it can be accom-
Ished even to the satisfaction of
k Arabs, as Sir Norman Angell
pd, at the same meeting, if gov
hmental assistance were given
the transplanted Arabs. There
|n be little doubt that while not
I, many thousands of Arabs
buld grab the opportunity, if
py were provided with a piece
I land of their own in a neigh
ping Arab country,
thirdly, Mr. Sieff proposes that
F present geographic boundaries
I Palestine be redrafted to in
pde Trans-Jordan, which offers
bast area for colonization. This,
P. is not as radical as one might
fcpose, for Trans-Jordan was
Iginally supposed to be within
I scope of the Jewish National
Imeland. It was under Sir Her-
Samuel’s regime that a line
■demarcation \vas drawn between
| Trans-Jordan and the Cis
fdan territories.
Put Mr. Sieff goes further —and
■ would explore the possibilities
I a large scale Jewish settle
|nt in the western hemisphere.
is a bold program, but per
l>s we have learned by now that
F measures will not do and per
r® desperation w 7 ill make us un
gtake things these days, that we
P not the hardihood to even
| n k of, in the days of yore.
52,000 KIT.T.y.n
Pud now let us return to the
■rors. Once upon a time, we
id to be excited by the pogroms
■which a hundred or two hund-
V Jews were killed.
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBEER 28, 1941
Histadrut Conven
tion Demands •
Jewish Army
NEW YORK, November 23,
(Special)—The two-day conven
tion of the National Labor Com
mittee for Palestine held at the
Mecca Temple and the Hotel
Astor last Saturday and Sunday,
closed with a call to American
Jewry to double its aid to the
Histadrut in Palestine.
DEMAND THREE-FOLD
PROGRAM
The 3,000 delegates, represent
ing over 500,000 Jewish workers,
civic and benevolent groups and
Zionist bodies, heard the declara
tion read by Baruch Zuckerman,
leading Labor Zionist, which stat
ed:
“We call upon the democracies
now combatting Hitler to join the
Jewish people in the realization of
the following immediate and ul
timate aims, which will right the
great wrongs done to the most
helpless of all Hitler’s victims,
the Jewish people:
To guarantee to the Jewish peo
ple the right to live and work in
whatever countries they may hap
pen to be, and to allow their re
turn to their countries of origin
after the war if they so desire.
We demand the rights of our peo
ple to continue their Jewish iden
tity and to develop their own re
ligion and culture. We believe
that the above aims can best be
assured by the establishment of
an international instrument to
guarantee the rights of all minor
ities, Jews and non-Jews alike . . .
“To grant the Jewish communi
ty in Palestine, now in the midst
of the war, the right to use their
own name and fight under their
own flag as do all other Allied
Armies. The half million Jews in
Palestine are ready to shed their
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affecting Jewish men in the nat ’ on ted t j, e 60 000th Jewish prayer book since Inauguration of Selective Service to Pvt. Abraham
National Jewish Welfare Board, presented the v r Chaplain John O. Linqulst, of the Second Corps Area;
S*.n.T.< Brooklyn who U «a.l.n.d .« |S'lhW .7«h°. 2nd Corp fro., who r.pro..nt.d Moj-Gon. Irvin, J. Phllllp.
Dr. Pool, Pvt. Menoff and Col. H. oiay m. .
son, 2nd Corps Area Commander.
President Os
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Committee
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MAURICE WERTHEIM
New York (JPS) —Maurice Wer
theim, Jewish communal worker,
philanthropist and banker was
elected President of tfce American
Jewish Committee, succeeding the
late Sol M. Stroock, who died a
few months ago, at a special
meeting held at Temple Emanu-El
here.
The fifty-five-year-old banker
and financier is the fifth Presi
dent of the American Jewish Com
mittee since it was founded 35
years ago to protect Jewish citi
zens in all lands. The previous
Presidents were Judge Mayer
Sulzberger, Louis shall, Dr.
Cyrus Adler and Sol Stroock.
blood for the defense of their po
sitions and for the sake of democ
racy. They desire to contribute
the maximum in the war against
Hitlerism.
Religious Leaders of South
to Meet at W.Palm Beach
“The Synagogue and American Jewish Life” will oc
cupy the attention of representatives from Congregations,
Sisterhoods and Brotherhoods of the states of Alabama,
Florida, and Georgia when they convene at West Palm
Beach, Florida, on Sunday, November 30.
This meeting is one of the reg
ional conferences sponsored by
the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations. During the morn
ing session, there will be a paper
on: “The Challenge of the Syna
gogue to the American Jewish Com
munity” and a Symposium in
which distinguished laymen of the
district will participate. The
theme for this discussion is:
•‘How Can the Synagogue Prevent
Another Lost Generation?”
The afternoon will be devoted to
a Panel Discussion on Problems
of Congregations, led by Dr. Carl
Herman of West Palm Beach.
At a luncheon, Rabbi Colman
Zwitman, Temple Israel, Miami,
will speak on “Religion and the
American Jewish Community.”
The evening banquet at the
British Labor
Confirms Balfour
Declaration
Speaking in the name of the
British trade unions, William J.
Biown, M. P. and general secre
tary of the powerful Civil Service
Clerical Workers Association, re
affirmed the stand of the British
workers that Palestine should be
come the Jewish homeland, “so
that Jewish refugees would no
longer be without a passport.”
George Washington Hotel will have
two distinguished and nationally
known speakers: Mrs. Hugo Hart
mann, President, National Feder
ation of Temple Sisterhoods, and
Dr. Julian B. Feibelman, Rabbi,
Temple Sinai, New Orleans.
Jewish War
Prisoners Are
Mistreated
LONDON, (JTA)—Details of
how the Nazis, in defiance of the
existing international regulations,
are segregating and mistreating
Jewish war prisoners were report
ed here this week by a French of
ficer who was one of a group of
186 French war prisoners who
succeeded in breaking away en
masse from a German prison camp
to Soviet territory and reached
England byway of the Near East.
All 186 will be awarded war deco
rations by General de Gaulle at a
formal ceremony here.
Jewish war prisoners, the officer
related, are never addressed by •
the Nazi guards in the German
camps as “soldiers” but always as
“Jude.”
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